Schumer: Team USA's Olympic gear should be 'Made in New York'

View full sizeNew York's senior senator has lined up a Rochester-based suit maker to make Olympic outfits in the USA -- instead of China, where the currently-designated uniforms were stitched together.

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Is it too late?

Sen. Chuck Schumer hopes not.

New York's senior senator has lined up a Rochester-based suit maker to make Olympic outfits in the USA -- instead of China, where the currently-designated uniforms were stitched together.

Schumer joined a growing chorus of Americans befuddled by the fact that Team USA sponsor Ralph Lauren turned to China for the labor to assemble our athletes' uniforms.

"Our Olympians don't train their entire lives to don Chinese uniforms,"
said Schumer. "Team USA is seeing red instead of red white and blue, and
it is clear that the U.S. Olympic Committee should start over and
provide the U.S.-made uniforms these athletes deserve."

Schumer said the president of Rochester suit maker Hickey Freeman was willing to do whatever possible to produce USA-made uniforms, and called on the U.S. Olympic committee to accept the offer.

Team USA's formal wear for the ceremonies includes berets, blazers,
and trousers for the men and berets, scarves, and skirts for the women -- and they all bear the "Made in China" label.